The Hubble Telescope (and the most important photograph ever taken)
The Hubble Telescope, and Why it is Amazing
In research for my lens The Lunacy of Religion I followed link after link online getting completely obsessed with the topic, and along the way I spend a few hours looking through photographs taken by the Hubble Telescope. The photographs are amazing, and it is surprising to me that people will limit the wonder and majesty of the universe to the sentence 'God did it'.  The universe is far more beautiful and complex and awe-inspiring than that, and that is why I made this lens. In the history o...

Images Of Space
Images taken by the Hubble Space Telescope
All of these images were taken by the Hubble Space Telescope. Have a look and be amazed at the detail. Imagine what our night sky would be like if we could look up and see things like this. How truly awesome that would be!! This lens came about simply because I love to look at these images and wonder.

The Hubble Telescope
The Hubble Space Telescope
The Hubble Telescope was launched in 1990 and is currently orbiting the Earth. The Hubble was launched aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery and is expected to continue operation until between 2014 and 2018. Its replacement, the James Webb Space Telescope is expected to launch in 2018. The Hubble weighs 24,000 pounds and orbits the Earth every 96 minutes. Below are some fascinating pictures taken by this telescope. All pictures are courtesy of NASA.